A2 Media

A key part of our music video is when he appears at a different location so I spent some time adding cool transition effects to the footage. The first one is a dissolve and directional blur this doesn't quite have the flow I wanted because the shots were filmed on separate days meaning the camera angles are different. The second is a cross zoom, I prefer this one because it hides the cut between the shots a lot better making it almost seem like one take; this will be the one we use in the final cut.

To cast our main character (a young boy dressed as a superhero) we all had a very clear idea of the type of actor we wanted. We wanted someone who was very cheeky and confident and that they could carry this over on camera. We very soon found two candidates who we though fitted this role very well. The two actors we casted for the role are: Toby Cooke - We felt Toby would be a good actor to cast for our main role as he was very cheeky and very confident. He is a very typical young boy and exactly what we were looking for. Reef Allen - Like Toby, Reef was extremely cheeky and confident and had a large imagination. As we wanted our character to be a very typical adventurous young boy, we felt that Reef also fitted this very well.

Day 1 Tuesday 5th July - We will shoot all the inside and garden footage at my house for about the first 45 seconds of the video. All three of us will be there and these shots are only of Toby so we don't need any extras. Day 2 Tuesday 12th July - This is for the main part of the music video and will be shot at Longs Wood. We have arranged to have a drone to film on and for 3 extras as well as Toby. Day 3 - Thursday 21st July - We will be filming the finale to the music video and any extra shots we need. For this we have managed to get 4 extras and Toby.

This is our final plot ideas: The main character (a young boy) puts on his superhero mask and runs into his garden to get into his tent/den. The tent then transports him into another woodland world in which there will be others all dancing. In the middle of all the dancing and partying in the new forest the young boy will trip up/fall over in some way and as he hits the floor he will be transported back to his garden and outside the tent/den.  The boy will then realise he's back home and may be greeted by his mother asking wheres he been (that scene will be dependant on availability of actors). We tried to keep our idea as simplistic as possible, this was to ensure that we didn't over complicate the meaning of the video which is simply just about the young boy enjoying himself in his own imagination when he has the safety of his superhero costume on.

We spent a lot of time debating and brainstorming ideas for our music video. From the start we knew we wanted to bring in some element of dance due to the nature of the song and obviously its title. Our basic premise is a young boy is playing in his den before he gets transported to another world. Here he meets various people dancing as he explores this new world. From here we developed and expanded our idea. For example, we decided we wanted the young boy to be dressed as a superhero: using 'the safety dance' as a means of protecting himself from evil. We also decided we wanted the den to be in a garden whilst the new world will be a forest and various locations within it. What happens and where the young boy goes in this new world is still being finalised. Some of the ideas for this section are as follows: He enters the new world and finds a party in a clearing and joins in, eventually being hit by confetti/party poppers/paint which cause him to fall and be transported back